1.58 linear feet, .875 cubic feet (23 volumes in 2 boxes 31 x 24 x 16 cm)

Twenty-three volumes of handwritten and typed notes created by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt during her travels by train and automobile through Europe and the United States, generally accompanied by her sister, Sarah Cooper Hewitt, and most likely by her butler William Donnelly. The diaries also containing some tipped-in or loosely inserted newsclippings, magazine articles, small brochures, letters, calling cards, and other ephemera

Places visited by the Hewitt sisters are organized roughly in alphabetical order in each volume

Travel writers mentioned in the diaries: Edith Wharton; Elgood; Platt; Latham; Alfred de Champeau; Cain; Schmid; and A. Hallays

The individual volumes consist of commercially-produced ("National Simplex") two-ring metal binders with leather or paperboard covers and lined (graph) paper, measuring 16 cm. Each volume is housed in an individual archival paperboard clamshell box

The volume for France, Holland & unknown sketches (S-D-110) contains mostly sketches in black pencil, with a few in color, of landscapes and architectural details

Volume 3 for United States (S-D-101) contains some sepia-toned photographs of houses, interiors, and gardens

Italy (volumes 1-3, 5-6; S-D-88 to S-D-92; box 1) -- France (volumes 1-7;S-D-79 and S-D-93 to S-D-98; box 1) -- United States (volumes 1-4; S-D-99 to S-D-102; box 2) -- Italy/France/England/United States/Mexico (1 volume; S-D-103; box 2) -- Environs de Paris (1 volume; S-D-104; box 2) -- Germany (1 volume; S-D-105; box 2) -- Spain (1 volume; S-D-106; box 2) -- Holland (1 volume; S-D-108; box 2) -- France, Holland, & unknown sketches (1 volume; S-D-110; box 2) -- Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland & Switzerland (1 volume; S-D-111; box 2)

Daughters of Abram Stevens Hewitt and Sarah Amelia Cooper Hewitt, collectors of decorative arts, and the founders of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (an institution which evolved later into the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

A more detailed finding aid is available in the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library

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